In the 3rd Giant Bomb PAX panel, Jeff briefly talked about a potential subscription based Giant Bomb dealy-ma-bob. If this were implemented, would you pay a fee for subscription and if you would, how much would you pay? I'd totally be for a yearly, or even monthly subscription. I would probably pay up to around 50 bucks a year, depending on what kind of benefits you'd get for subscribing. I already pay that for XBL and I'm completely happy with that service, and I think the Giant Bomb boys could make a subscription fee well worth it.
Would YOU pay a Giant Bomb subscription fee?
If it was ad free site *though its all ready relatively ad free* and i got special privies...then id pay like say 5 dollars a month or 20-30 dollars a year.
if it came with some things like a T-shirt/DVD or a limited edition autographed photo of thestaff..and with no ads on the site, maybe some sort of badge on your profile.
I don't know. I went to great lengths to make sure I support them by purchasing the IPhone app, so I would probably support them, but I really like the sites free add free nature. I wouldn't even mind a free ad present site.
" i would pay for a giantbomb magazine "Giantbomb's staple is great videos.
A magazine would defeat the purpose.
I don't think I would, but it depends on what the benefits are, & knowing these fad muckers, they could be pretty zany to the max, yo...
Neh, not sure. I mean, I'm not cheap or anything, and I would gladly buy any extra benefits within reason, but it's the matter of what the benefit is.
Despite the fact that I follow this site like a religion, there's no way I'd pay a subscription fee.
" It's amazing how this generation of consoles has managed to convince people to pay (and be satisfied with said payment) for things that really haven't ever cost the consumer anything before. "I think that is because online play had´t been good before. Or if you are referring to Avatar´s clothes and accessories then I totally agree with you.
No. I can list a million reasons why, but the biggest reason is that it will lead to Giant Bomb losing some of what makes Giant Bomb so awesome.
@Dethfish77 said:
" Yes. If all they did was give the subscribers their own forum it'd be worth it. Less trolls. "Forum segregation would definitely be one of those problems. Separating the community for a site that is defined by its community is a BAD idea.
" Depends on cost and what the benefits are. "This, totally.
To give the GB crew an idea of what we consider valid subscription models, maybe we should tell them our own experiences :
I paid $1.50 or so for a few months of Fileshack years ago, back before they weren't 500kb/s no matter what, and very short times, and when PC gaming was bigger.
I paid a month or so of IGN Insider back when they actually cared about that service (during E3 2001-ish), and IGN wasn't so shit.
I think that about wraps it up for actual money I've paid for videogame media related services.
Yes I would, for no ads. I don't care about other benefits; in fact I'd rather not have additional on-site benefits because I hate it when a community like this is split into haves and have-nots, regardless of which side I'm on. Basically anything that draws attention to subscribers over everybody else (ie. a tag, sigs, any extra forum rights etc.) would instantly put me off the entire idea.
I would have donated long ago if given the option. I appreciate Jeff's concerns as expressed on the panel, but I think he is wrong to consider donations as being given in return for nothing; they would have been given in return for hours of (effectively) ad-free entertainment, every week for the last year - there would have been nothing wrong with accepting them, regardless of GB being a commercial entity*. I can imagine other perfectly understandable reasons why they chose not to accept them though, such as 'This will definitely end in drama and tears', which it certainly would have.
*Note: I have no idea how some people didn't manage to figure out the super secret business model that GB has been operating under.
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